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Die Auslegung von Gesetzen in England und auf dem Kontinent by Stefan Vogenauer, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck Verlag, 2001, 2 volumes, xlix + 1333 + (bibliography and index) 148 pp (189 euros hardback) ISBN 3 16 147605 0. - Understanding Common Law Legislation by Francis A R Bennion, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, xxx + 222 + (bibliography and index) 15pp (£30.00 hardback). ISBN 0 19 924777 3.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John Bell
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Legal Studies , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , September 2002 , pp. 473 - 480
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Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 2002

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1. Bennion, FA R Statutory Interpretation (London: Butterworths, 3rd edn, 1997, with supplement 1999).Google Scholar

2. Hereafter ‘Bennion’.

3. Bennion, p 8.

4. For some unexplained reason, in Understanding Common Law Legislation, Bennion argues that s 3 (1) ‘drastically alters existing methods [of interpretation]’ without referring to the (weaker) presumption of compatibility of national legislation with the European Convention on Human Rights, with which the courts had been operating for some time, and the Marleasing jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice: see Bennion Statutory Interpretation, n 1 above, ss 411–413; Birks, P (ed) English Private Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)Google Scholar s 1.39. (In his works, Bennion uses the unusual abbreviation ‘CJEC’ for the title ‘Court of Justice of the European Communities’, rather than the standard term ‘ECJ’.)

5. See Cross on Statutory Interpretation (3rd edn by J Bell and Sir G Engle, London: Butterworths, 1995).

6. The Law Lards (London: Macmillan, 1982) ch 2.

7. See Bell, J French Legal Cultures (London: Butterworths, 2001) p 57.Google Scholar

8. See Council Directive 93/77/EEC of 21 September 1993, OJ 1993 L 244/23.

9. See Sourioux, J-L and Lerat, P L' analyse du texte (Paris: Dalloz, 3rd edn, 1992) pp 13–15.Google Scholar

10. Dworkin, R M Law's Empire (London: Fontana, 1986)Google Scholar.